Google LLC is a multinational technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. In AI, Google developed the Transformer architecture, the Gemini series of LLMs, and DeepMind's AlphaFold protein structure predictor.
Alphabet is designing a new server chip, internally dubbed 'Frozen v2,' to make its Gemini AI models more efficient, with a planned release in 2028. The chip could be six to ten times more efficient t…
Prince Canuma, the maintainer of mlx-vlm, released Nativ, an MIT-licensed macOS app for local AI inference, on the day of its v0.0.1 launch. The app bundles an mlx-vlm server, pulls models from Huggin…
Google is testing a new AI-powered autofill feature called Find and Fill with Gemini in Chrome Canary that pulls information from across a user's Google account, including Gmail and Photos, to fill on…
An AI SEO agent is software that continuously runs the search-optimization loop—observing performance, proposing changes, applying approved ones, and measuring outcomes—rather than producing a one-tim…
Cue, a voice-activated AI agent, cut latency by 44%, increased dictation usage by 30%, and eliminated marginal inference costs by running Google's Gemma 4 E4B model locally for text polishing, with me…
Science fiction author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow argues in his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, that most people are being turned into servants of machines, not masters,…
Fluidstack, a London-founded AI infrastructure startup, is targeting an $18 billion valuation in a new $1 billion funding round, more than double its $7.5 billion valuation from December 2025, accordi…
Three distinct search models — keyword, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and conversational large language model (LLM) — coexist in 2026, each with different architectures and failure modes, acco…
Republican Senator Eric Schmitt is leading a bipartisan push to break Google's search monopoly, targeting the company's shift to AI-generated responses that keep users on-platform instead of directing…
OpenAI is on pace to miss its own 2030 ad revenue projection of $100 billion by 90%, according to a new analysis from marketing consulting firm Emarketer. Emarketer estimates the entire addressable ma…
A new open-source tool called chrome-agent, built in Rust, provides an LLM-native browser automation tool that reduces page representation to ~50 tokens using the accessibility tree, compared to ~2,00…
Nativ has released an open-source desktop app that lets users run frontier open models from Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI locally on Apple Silicon Macs with no accounts, subscriptions, or cloud depend…
The European Commission adopted two binding decisions requiring Google to share anonymized Search data with rival search engines and open parts of Android to competing AI assistants under the Digital …
Google is developing 'Frozen v2,' a server chip that bakes the Gemini architecture directly into hardware, which internal sources say could be 6 to 10 times more efficient than current TPUs. Scheduled…
Adobe's Nextcam Team is adding multiple generative AI tools to its experimental Project Indigo camera app through a new feature called AI Playground, which includes Object Editing, Styles, Photo Guida…
Google is testing a new feature in Chrome Canary that lets users right-click on a tab group and select "Ask Gemini about this group," giving Gemini access to every tab in the collection to summarize c…
Open source AI cannot be banned, argues a new analysis, as the technology's decentralized nature makes prohibition impractical. The piece highlights that attempts to restrict open source AI would stif…
Google is engineering a new server chip called 'Frozen v2' that bakes elements of its Gemini AI model directly into hardware to serve AI models faster and more efficiently amid a severe computing capa…
Google released AlphaEvolve, a DeepMind-born AI agent that automates code optimization, as a generally available tool on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, using evolutionary algorithms and Gemini …
Chip stocks recovered Monday, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor index climbing more than 2.6%, after last week's rout sent them into a bear market. AMD rose on news of a deal with Microsoft to deplo…